On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 5:14 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net>wrote:
> > On May 31, 2011, at 10:38 AM, David Winsemius wrote: > > >> On May 31, 2011, at 10:19 AM, heimat los wrote: >> >> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Matt Shotwell <m...@biostatmatt.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 15:36 +0200, heimat los wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello all, >>>>> I am new to R and my question should be trivial. I need to create a >>>>> word >>>>> cloud from a txt file containing the words and their occurrence number. >>>>> >>>> For >>>> >>>>> that purposes I am using the snippets package [1]. >>>>> As it can be seen at the bottom of the link, first I have to create a >>>>> >>>> vector >>>> >>>>> (is that right that words is a vector?) like bellow. >>>>> >>>>> words <- c(apple=10, pie=14, orange=5, fruit=4) >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> My problem is to do the same thing but create the vector from a file >>>>> >>>> which >>>> >>>>> would contain words and their occurence number. I would be very happy >>>>> if >>>>> >>>> you >>>> >>>>> could give me some hints. >>>>> >>>> >>>> How is the file formatted? Can you provide a small example? >>>> >>>> >>>> The file format is >>> >>> "video tape"=8 >>> "object recognition"=45 >>> "object detection"=23 >>> "vhs tape"=2 >>> >> >> Something like this may work: >> >> words <- read.table(file="name.txt", sep="=", header=FALSE) >> wvec <- words$V1 >> names(wvec) <- rownames(words) >> > > Looking at Shotwell answer, I see that I got the column name wrong. His is > the better answer. > > -- > David. > > >> Need to change the header argument and the col-name argument to "$" if you >> have a header line. >> >> -- >> David (DWin) >> >> >>> But I can change it if needed with bash scripting. >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> >>> >>> Moreover, to understand the format of the file to be inserted I write >>>>> the >>>>> vector words to a file. >>>>> >>>>> write(words, file="words.txt") >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> However, the file words.txt contains only the values but not the >>>>> names(apple, pie etc.). >>>>> >>>>> $ cat words.txt >>>>> 10 14 5 4 >>>>> >>>>> It seems that I have to understand more about the data types in R. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks. >>>>> PH >>>>> >>>>> http://www.rforge.net/doc/packages/snippets/cloud.html >>>>> >>>>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>>>> >>>>> ______________________________________________ >>>>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >>>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>>>> PLEASE do read the posting guide >>>>> >>>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >>>> >>>>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>> PLEASE do read the posting guide >>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >>> >> >> David Winsemius, MD >> West Hartford, CT >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > David Winsemius, MD > West Hartford, CT > > Thank you all, your answers helped me a lot. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
